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Who’s defining what’s next?

“Defining the iField for the 21st Century:  Research Questions”

School of Library & Information Studies

College of Communication & Information

The Florida State University

When: Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Web Simulcast: To view a live broadcast on the Internet, go to http://cci.fsu.edu/PlayVideo . A link for the simulcast will become active 10 [...]

What were they doing?

There’s been quite an evolution in one Office lately.

One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to [...]

Lee LeBlanc on the future of federated search

Congrats to TTW Contributing writer Lee LeBlanc for his essay on the future of federated search. He is second runner up in the federated search blog’s writing contest. “The aim of the contest was to predict the future of federated search.”

Read his entire essay here.

The 2030’s versions of the iPhone and G1 project into space. Using a [...]

Is your job really to quiet patrons and give directions?

From: –Best Careers 2009: Librarian “A Day in the Life. You work in a small municipal library, where you have to do a little of everything. You start your day by leafing through catalogs from online database publishers and book reviews in Library Journal to decide which titles to add to your collection. Next, it’s [...]

What are you inspiring?

 

On the way to DevLearn2008, I pulled out my book and to read. I noticed the person flying next to me had a book too. As we taxied down the flightline, I asked her what she was reading.

Turns out she was a recently retired high school science teacher. We chatted [...]

“What about structure & relationships?”

 Kyle Jones asked the TTW gang in an email:

“We talk about the social web in terms of visible relationships being made, but we shouldn’t overlook the structure underneath these relationships. I stumbled over this while looking at the new Wordpress 2.7 interface: http://gmpg.org/xfn/ Just ponder it if you have a second.”

I did [...]

New way to work?

I walk. I work. I stay more alert. I feel better at the end of the day. Research supports this.

Plenty of other people dig the idea it seems. The rising term is “Treadmill Desk.” Units go for about $4,000 but I hacked mine together for about $400. Why? I was [...]

Is the landscape of cheating changing?

For your review: the youtube video causing a sensational discussion about cheating students.

And a pretty interesting piece by US News & World Report:

“…More tech-savvy professors: Barbara Christe, program director of biomedical engineering technology at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, says she usually catches three or four students a year with her Web “honey pots.” She [...]

Do I need Chrome when I’m happy with Firefox?

or “Do I Dare Blog About My Classwork, Re-mix the Content for Blog Posts, or Share Syllabus with Fellow Classmates?” That’s the question I have too. Kyle beat me to it -but I still may follow up in another post. My points below touch on this through the Browser choice question I framed. (Thanks Kyle).

Chrome [...]

Got these back to school tools?

So, you have a new laptop?  Read up:

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there’s no need to rely on a [...]